Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers / Debra A. Shattuck.

Author
Shattuck, Debra A. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Sport and society [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities, they nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-290) and index.
    Contents
    • Creating a national pastime
    • 1865-1879: contesting a national pastime
    • 1865-1879: commodifying a national pastime
    • The 1880s: molding manly men and disappearing women
    • The 1890s: new women, bloomer girls, and the old ball game.
    ISBN
    • 9780252040375 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0252040376 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780252081866 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0252081862 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016007026
    OCLC
    945624959
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